Police Constable Lee: Complete 24 Mysteries

In 1909 Edgar Wallace wrote 24 short stories featuring Police Contable Lee of the London ""D"" Division for publication in the British weekly magazine Ideas. A number of these were reprinted in Ideas in 1928-1929 (some under new titles) and in other magazines. Nine of the P.C. Lee stories were later included in the 1961 collection The Undisclosed Client and Other Stories. So far as could be ascertained, the only story in the series that appeared in any collection published during Wallace's lifetime was «Change,» which was re-written (without P.C. Lee) as «Mr. Sigee's Relations» for The Lady Called Nita, published by George Newnes, London, in 1930.

Contents:

Mr. Simmons' Profession

A Man of Note

For Jewey's Laggin'

Pear-Drops

How He Lost His Moustache

Sergeant Run-A-Mile

The Sentimental Burglar

Change

A Case for Angel, Esquire

Contempt

Confidence

Fireless Telegraphy

The General Practitioner

The Snatchers

The Gold Mine

Mouldy the Scrivener

Mrs. Flindin's Lodger

The Story of a Great Cross-Examination

Tanks

The Silence of P.-C. Hirley

The Power of the Eye

The Convict's Daughter

The Derby Favourite

The Last Adventure

Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was an English writer. As well as journalism, Wallace wrote screen plays, poetry, historical non-fiction, 18 stage plays, 957 short stories and over 170 novels, 12 in 1929 alone. More than 160 films have been made of Wallace's work.